FDA Orders Halt to Production of Unapproved Painkillers – Gives One a Reprieve

I hope i'm not reading that right. Are they going to stop making oxycodone 5mg? I currently take those for break thru pain. I can't switch to percocet because I have hemochromitosis and am not supposed to take tylenol.

The FDA, that underfunded, incompetentterr agency that couldn't even keep the pet food safe,  cares nothing about the actual suffering of chronic pain patients or protecting us.  They are as opioid phobic as the DEA, the DOJ and those other agencies and individuals in government who continue to support the ill conceived and long outdated Controlled Substances Act passed in 1970.

Pain patients are generally regarded as nothing more than drug seeking opiate addicts by both their government and their doctors.  To learn more about this terrible injustice and the pain patients who are organizing to fight against it, I suggest visiting the website of Pain Relief Network.

While I am fully aware of the problems of drug abuse, those of us who truly require relief from pain are becoming more and more unable to so.  It is truly sad that people do abuse medications that  help others and because of those people it is getting harder for people with chronic pain to find the relief we are intitled to as suffering human beings.  Doctors are afraid to prescripe proper medications and make us feel guilty for needing them.  I am no stranger to chronic pain at 64 and certainly not interested in using medication for anything other than what it is meant for.  While I have heard some people get high on these medications this is not the case with myself and thousands of others who suffer chronic pain.  The pain medications encluded in the list the FDA is taking off the market are none I use, however, when will they decide all pain medications should be banned?   I feel the FDA  is going far beyond what it is they are suppose to be doing. 

I THINK THIS IS PLAIN BULLS*** !!!!!!  WITHOUT MY PAIN MEDS, I DON'T WALK, I'M IN A WHEELCHAIR.  I KNOW THEY DON'T CARE BUT MY FAMILY AND I DO!!! THEY NEED TO FIX THE PROBLEM BEFORE TAKING MY LEGS!!!!!!!

L.L OF KNOXVILLE

I want to know why we as a group are not forming a petition etc to protest our treatment. As a recovering cancer patient I am insulted by the treatment by my government. Allowing shortages and suffering, dismissing my pain, and making me feel like I am a drug addict. I am tired of it and ashamed of my country and this witch hunt. We need to rise up and do it now. Apathy and inaction will result in many people suffering or at the very leadt having to search all over town when feeling terrible already just to fill a Rx HOW RIDICULOUS and is a bit abusive to those very weak n ill like myself!

hi ann, thanx as always for keeping us informed, there are way too many people in our country suffering, and for no reason!!! i , myself am so sick of looking for new pain clinics, because of the way i was treated, as i see so many other poor people ! there has to be something that can be done with this!! are we to live our liveess in pain and have our whole world turned upside down, because of no commpassion from drs., nurses etc?? i am so glad i found this site because , i thought i was the only one treated as a drugseeker,, and now i see all these people that are treated the same way..it is just WRONG!!!! i am so glad that my family physician can SEE the pain i am in and i see a therapist because my husband and i are moving furthher and further apart, and i can't hardly blame him, i am not the wwooman he married, i do rarely ANYTHING anymore and i am truly afraid of our rrelationship just falling apart. it reeally is not fair to annyone!!! is there anything we can do? i'm sorry, i know i am asking a question that might not be able to be answered. thank you for all you do, cindi

I hope that this won't affect the pump. I have had tried everything else and this is the only thing that works for me.

I am well aware of doctors' abusing the system. In fact, where I live, two doctors have gone to jail for writing fake scripts. This ruins it for people that truly need meds to survive. There should be a way that we get what we need with no hassle.

I take the 30mg instant release Morphine and I can not see how the FDA

is saying that the tablets are stronger because when i take my 30mg

morphine Tablets I am in more pain then I was before all of this happen.

I am in bed 24/7 and even the simple things that i try to do so gives me so much pain I can not stand it no more.

What is realy going on.All of the the drugs stors say that they are on back order and they are hard to find .

WHEN IS THIS GOING TO BE TAKEN CARE OF BECAUSE RIGHT NOW I FELL LIKE I AM BEING TORTURED.I live a lone and I can not stand up to cook or take a shower without being in so much pain.If it was not for Insures I would starved.

I would like to know when this is going to be takin care of because of right now I do not have any kind of life.

I was wondering if you know  if they will be pulling 40mg oxycontin mfg Purdu?  And 10 mg Endocet?  If they do pull these will there be other's like them left on the market that I could easily transition too?  Very scary for me, I have 7 ruptured disk and, am on palitative care, just had spinal cord stimulator put in that failed. Very concerned, as I am a mother of two small children, and can't function with the pain without these medications.

Thank you for your answer,  Sheila

Hi I agree with you too. Why to forbid making painkillers that patients taking safely for many years? To relieve pains is a sin? The FDA is a mafia! and its staff they are religious fanatics!